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Addressbook - Announce

© 1995, 1996 Clemens Durka

I am pleased to announce Addressbook 0.6, an addressmanager which could replace your old rolodex or your old book with all your addresses. Addressbook is a program to manage your addresses, phone numbers, e-mailaddresses and everything which is now written in your rolodex.
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Title:		Addressbook
Version:	0.6
Entered-date:	22MAR96
Description:	Addressbook is an addressmanager which could replace your
		old paper rolodex. It stores addresses, phone and fax numbers
		and can call some additional programs (like for dialing)
		It has a nice User Interface written in Tcl/Tk
		For more information please look in the WWW:
		http://wwwmayr.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~durka/addressbook/
		If you want to see what it looks like: http://wwwmayr.
		informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~durka/addressbook/screenshot.html
Keywords:	addressbook addressmanager phonebook
Author:		durka@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Clemens Durka)
Maintained-by:	durka@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Clemens Durka)
Primary-site:	ftp.leo.org /pub/comp/os/linux/local/apps
		132kB addressbook-0.6.tar.gz
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/X11/xapps/rolodex
		132kB addressbook-0.6.tar.gz
Alternate-site: ftp.aud.alcatel.com /tcl/code
		132kB addressbook-0.6.tar.gz
Platforms:	any platform that supports Tcl/Tk (tested: Linux, HPUX)
Copying-policy: GPL
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What are the features of Addressbook?

Some features are:

  • Graphical User Interface
  • Multi language support (now english, german, french, dutch)
  • All the addresses are displayed in a listbox
  • The actual address can be edited in a form
  • Configurable fields contents
  • fast search by typing the first letters of a name
  • search configurable for regular expression, matching or exact
  • External programs can be called with contents of some fields (so you can dial a phonenumber by pressing a button)
  • Standalone perl program for fast search without GUI

    Changes 0.5 -> 0.6:

  • Better support for tcl7.4/tk4.0
  • Undo button to undo the last operation
  • Sorting independant of display in listbox
  • Fast loading of 3 addressfiles like private / office
  • Selection of several addresses possible
  • More predefined fields
  • User defined LaTeX printing
  • multiuser support and file locking
  • state field for US users
  • translation to dutch

    Future features:

  • More ways and better printing
  • Export and import from databases
  • Add more languages (if some volunteer translates)

    Where can I get more information?

    You are already looking at it. For more information see as well the other pages:

  • INSTALL for installation instruction.
  • MANUAL for information on the dataformat and on how to use the program
  • SCREENSHOT to see how it looks.

    Where can I get Addressbook?

    via http: addressbook-0.6.tar.gz (132 kB)
    via ftp: ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/linux/local/apps/addressbook-[version].tar.gz
    via ftp: on all sunsite mirrors: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xapps/rolodex/addressbook-[version].tar.gz
    via ftp: on all alcatel mirrors: ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/code/addressbook-[version].tar.gz

    What is needed to run Addressbook?

    Addressbook is based on Tcl/Tk, so you need a machine where Tcl/Tk is running. For most Unix like machines, Tcl/Tk is available. This program runs under the old version tcl7.3/tk3.6 and the actual version tcl7.4 / tk4.0. If you don't have tcl/tk yet, please get the new version, as the support for tk3.6 might be removed in future versions.

    This program is tested under:

  • Linux 1.2.13 (i586) Tcl7.3/Tk3.6 from Slackware 2.3
  • Linux 1.2.13 (i586) Tcl7.4/Tk4.0 from Slackware 3.0
  • HPUX 9.0x (HP 7xx)

    It is reported to work as well under:

  • HPUX 10.x (HP 7xx)
  • SunOS 4.x.x (Sun Sparc)
  • Solaris 2.4 (Sun Sparc)
  • OSF/1 3.0 (DEC Alpha)
  • AIX 3.2 (IBM Power Risc)
  • Irix 5.3 (SGI)

    Where can I get Tcl/Tk?

    Tcl/Tk is available at following sites and their mirrors:
    ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/tcl7.4.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/tk4.0.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/programming/languages/tcl/distrib/tcl7.4.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/programming/languages/tcl/distrib/tk4.0.tar.gz

    binaries for Linux:
    ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/tcl/tcl7.4p2-1.bin.tar.gz
    ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/tcl/tk4.0p2-1.bin.tar.gz


    Clemens Durka ( durka@informatik.tu-muenchen.de or clemens@cle.joker.de), 22.03.1996